ISIS Queen of tha Dead!

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Her worship began in ancient Egypt and later spread to Asia Minor, Great Britain and Europe. Her religion was a mystery cult in which she was revered as Queen of Heaven, Earth and the Underworld.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Although little is known of this religion, initiates reported powerful mystical experiences and were ensured of everlasting life by devotion to Isis. Isis assumed the characteristics of many lesser-known Goddesses, thus becoming worshipped as the universal Goddess who was all-encompassing in her feminine attributes and power: divinity itself. Isis' power is symbolized by the throne, the seat of all authority, wisdom and truth on earth and in heaven.</b></I></div> <div> <I><B>C. Isis as Healer and Giver of All Life. </b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Isis, the "Lady of Life," is often depicted holding the Ankh, the symbol of eternal life. She is celebrated as a powerful and magical healer, being gifted with the ability to cure mind, body and spirit. Another of her titles is Divine Physician.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Central to Isis as queen of healing and magic is her mythic search for her beloved brother and husband Osiris, God of the Nile, who was brutally killed and hidden by his brother Set. Upon arriving in Phoenicia, Isis found Orisis' body in the palace, contained in a fragrant tamarisk tree. She carried her beloved back to Egypt for a proper burial. Enraged, Set, the God of Destruction, dismembered the body of Osiris and scattered the pieces.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Although grieving, Isis began her search anew with strength and determination. This time she was looking not for a single corpse, but had to locate the many pieces of Osiris. She found the legs, arms, head and trunk, but when she could not find his penis she substituted a piece of formed gold. Isis then performed the first rite of embalming and bestowed eternal life upon Osiris, whereupon Osiris rose from the dead and with Isis magically conceived Horus, the Sun God.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Regarded as the Universal Mother, Isis is often portrayed suckling her son Horus, both as an infant and as a child. This act may be interpreted as a reminder of the connection between all life and power and its original source.</b></I></div> <div> <I><B>D. Isis as Patron of Women. </b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Like Yemaya, Isis was a particular protector and patron of women. In this aspect we also see similarities between Isis and the Greek Goddesses Hera and Artemis, covered later in this book. Isis guided women in childbirth and comforted women bereaved by the death of loved ones. Her qualities of compassion, tenderness, love and devotion have endeared her to women throughout the ages. Isis' attributes are echoed in all the Great Mother Goddesses throughout history, including the Chinese Kwan Yin, the Christian Mary and the Greek Demeter.</b></I></div> <div> <I><B>E. Isis as Sustainer of Civilization and Culture. </b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Isis was credited with teaching the secrets of agriculture, law, weaving and the medicinal arts. As Divine Physician, Isis taught her priestesses techniques of healing, including the preparation of medicines for contraception, fertility and relief from pain.</b></I></div> <div> <I><B>F. Isis' Significance to Contemporary Women. </b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Isis is a reminder to women of their connection to the All-Goddess and to each other. We can invoke Isis as the throne, the foundation of all substance, to access the authority, power and truth of divine feminine wisdom.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>As a patron of women, she affirms women as great sources of strength, healing and inspiration for each other. </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>Isis shows us our own ability to heal ourselves and to heal others. She reconnects us with our innate healing powers by telling us we need not be victims of the patriarchal, Western scientific traditions of medicine and surgery.</b></I></div> <div> <I><B>G. Manifestation: Ways to Evoke Isis' Attributes into Your Life. </b></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="3e94bc40.jpg" border=0 width="587" height="708" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></I></div> <div> <I><B>                          </b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>       <IMG SRC="3ec61c80.gif" border=0 width="97" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></I><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#6600FF" FACE="MS Gothic" ><I><B><IMG SRC="3ee07700.gif" border=0 width="263" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></I></FONT><I><B><IMG SRC="3ef61c80.gif" border=0 width="97" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Isis, Queen of Heaven</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The cult of Isis was one of the most important of the empire wide cults in the later empire, and perhaps its greatest monument is in Lucius Apuleius very strange novel, The Golden Ass. Here Isis appears to Lucius, and claims to be all goddesses. We see here the workings of an intense religious syncretism. Isis is here the Queen of Heaven, and principal of all the gods and goddesses. </b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>When I had ended this prayer, and made known my needs to the Goddess, I fell asleep, and by and by appeared unto me a divine and venerable face, worshipped even by the Gods themselves. Then by little and little I seemed to see the whole figure of her body, mounting out of the sea and standing before me, and so I shall describe her divine appearance, if the poverty of my human speech will allow me, or her divine power give me eloquence to do so. </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>First she had a great abundance of hair, dispersed and scattered about her neck, on the crown of her head she wore many garlands interlaced with flowers, just above her brow was a disk in the form of a mirror, or resembling the light of the Moon, in one of her hands she bore serpents, in the other, blades of corn, her robe was of fine silk shimmering in divers colors, sometime yellow, sometime rose, sometime flamy, and sometimes (which sore troubled my spirit) dark and obscure, covered with a black robe in manner of a shield, and pleated in most subtle fashion at the skirts of her garments, the welts appeared comely, whereas here and there the stars peaked out, and in the middle of them was placed the Moon, which shone like a flame of fire, round about the robe was a coronet or garland made with flowers and fruits. In her right hand she had a timbrel of brass, which gave a pleasant sound, in her left hand she bore a cup of gold, out of the mouth whereof the serpent Aspis lifted up his head, with a swelling throat, her sweet feet were covered with shoes interlaced and wrought with victorious palm. </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>Thus the divine shape breathing out the pleasant spice of fertile Arabia, disdained not with her divine voice to utter these words unto me: </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>"Behold Lucius I am come, thy weeping and prayers has moved me to succor thee. I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, Queen of heaven, the principal of the Gods celestial, the light of the goddesses: at my will the planets of the air, the wholesome winds of the Seas, and the silences of hell be disposed; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world in divers manners, in variable customs and in many names, for the Phrygians call me Pessinuntica, the mother of the Gods: the Athenians call me Cecropian Artemis: the Cyprians, Paphian Aphrodite: the Candians, Dictyanna: the Sicilians , Stygian Proserpine: and the Eleusians call me Mother of the Corn. Some call me Juno, others Bellona of the Battles, and still others Hecate. Principally the Ethiopians which dwell in the Orient, and the Egyptians which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their proper ceremonies accustomed to worship me, do call me Queen Isis. Behold I am come to take pity of thy fortune and tribulation, behold I am present to favor and aid thee. Leave off thy weeping and lamentation, put away thy sorrow, for behold the healthful day which is ordained by my providence, therefore be ready to attend to my commandment." </b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>ISIS Revealed</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Cult of Isis</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The personification of Nature as a goddess originates with the water-priestesses of Susa in ancient Elam.  King Enkidu of ancient Babylon established the Order of Isis in Elam around 6,200 BC.  It was organized on a hierarchy of female participants in the perpetuation of scientific knowledge.  Each successive democratically elected head of the Order took the name Isis.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The influence of the order of Isis spread from Susa to dominate the entire ancient world. When King Enkidu died his body was cut into pieces and scattered far and wide, but Isis collected the parts and brought them to Egypt where she assembled the dead body as Osiris. </b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>In Ancient Egypt the cow is sacred to Isis, and associated with "Tat" the magic knot.  This relates to domestication of animals to perform labor, and the knot is a leveraging arrangement whereby a switchback of knots on the rope acts to cut the distance moved in half, doubling the leverage on the object, and enabling the moving of heavy objects not otherwise possible.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Broadly speaking, in Egypt, Isis is life as Osiris is death. Isis is the fertile valley of the Nile, as Osiris is the arid surrounding desert.  As the head of the Cult of Life in Egypt, great festivals with splendorous processions were staged in the spring and fall to honor Isis. </b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>After the fall of Ancient Egypt, the Graeko-Roman era began, and by the name of Isis she was worshipped as the "star of the sea", "patroness of travelers".  This is because Isis traveled far and wide.  Her icon (seen atop her head in many depictions) is interpreted as a “throne”, but it is actually a carrying chair used for travel. Greek for the Egyptian Eset, Isis protected the Delta city Perehbet, north of Busiris. From this base she traveled over all Egypt establishing water-temples. Her carrying chair (used for travel) is depicted in the "throne-shaped hat" she wears. Pictured below is the reconstructed carrying chair of Hetepheres I, Great Queen of Snofru's 4th Dynasty, mother of Khufu.</b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>A "Great Queen" of Egyptian royalty is the wife of the first Pharaoh of a Dynasty. A Dynasty changes when there are no male heirs to a Pharaoh from the Great Queen. In this case it is the powerful function of the Great Queen to pick a successor from among the sons of the Pharaoh with some other Royal mother. This is why siblings were married as infants, in that this assured their offspring succession. If the Pharaoh has a daughter from the Great Queen then she becomes the new Great Queen automatically when married to the half-brother chosen to be the new Pharaoh of the new Dynasty. Concerning Snofru, he was chosen by the Great Queen (wife of the heir-less Pharaoh Huni), to marry her daughter Hetepheres and assume the throne of the 4th Dynasty. Their son Khufu was married to their daughter Merytyetes (assuring Khufu's succession), and these children matured and had a son Kaweb and daughter Hetepheres II, which in turn were wed as infants. But Kaweb was murdered by the other heirs that Snofru produced. Snofru confused the situation by having children with his 'half-sister-wife's mother, the former Great Queen (from which line the 3 future Pharaohs Ra'djedef, Userkaf, and Sahure issued), as well as with his own mother Meresankh, and then with his own daughter, sired in his mother, Henutsen, to sire the future Pharaoh Khephren, and his line of Pharaohs Menkaure, Shepseskaf, and Neferirkare.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Relatives of Isis</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Ennead gods Geb and Nut have (at least) the children Isis, Osiris, Set, and Nephthys. Because Nephthys is barren to Set, she has with Osiris an adulterous child, the jackal headed Anubis. The cult of Anubis at Abydos worshipped the wolf Upuaut, "he who opens the way", with the title Khenti-Amenti, "he who rules the west", and symbolized by a black dog called the "chief of the dwellers of Amenti (the west)". Anubis carried the Caduceus, symbol of medicine. Anubis is an interface being, between life and death, derived from the concepts of the fringe of the desert combined with the newly dead. Thus, he opens the way to death. Death is our common destination, to which we are ushered by the black jackal Upuaut, the servant of Anubis.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>As for Isis and Osiris, Hor and Hathor are their husband-and-wife children. Hathor is the cow sacred to Isis. Horus in essence can be considered the progeny of Hor and Hathor. In the ancient nation of TERRA, Horus was called Hor-Djeduti (Tehuti), and was one of a Triumvirate of political power. By the time of the Old Kingdom period, Horus was the line of royalty from which the Pharaohs were drawn.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Hathor was the "Queen of the West" (Amenti - land of the dead). Her husband Hor Djeduti was King and Military Commander of the Ancient Egyptian nation of Terra. Her family line icon was the Cow. Her cult center was in Dendera (Tantere), south of Abydos, and there a crocodile sanctuary was decreed. Hathor is often depicted as a cow with the eye of Horus. Her name means "Temple of Horus". She played the sistrum (seses), a kind of drum, to drive away evil. She protected women from violence. She promoted love and joy with song, dance, and intoxication (from the lotus plant). She was the strength and support of the King, providing him supernatural powers to protect the nation. She had the title "Lady of the Turquoise" and "Lady of the Sycamore".</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Terra fell to anarchy in 5,600 BC. When civilization reemerged after 3,200 BC, Nekhebet (she of Nekheb) wore the white crown of the south, and was of the animal icon of the bald-headed vulture. She had many of the same characteristics of Hathor but specialized in the protection of childbirth. When Menes united the Nile in 2920 BC, Nekhebet became one of the Nebti (two mistresses), joined with Buto (Per Vadjit) of the north, wearing the red crown, and of the animal icon of the cobra. (Thus does the Pharaoh often wear the cobra and vulture heads on his forehead.) Buto was derivative of Seshat, the wife of the Tehuti of the north, Andjeti-Tehuti (Thoth). </b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Around 2700 BC myth and history begin to mix, and it culminates in the real life deity Imhotep, the architect of the Great Step Pyramid. This derives from the middle Thoth of the nation of Terra, Khons, of the animal icon of the baboon. Sekhmet "the powerful", is a derivative of the cat headed goddess Bast, the founder of the nation of Terra, after she established Khmun, the eight capital cities. Ptah in Memphis is the artists guild and builders guild remnant of Khons. Sekhmet and Ptah have the son Nefertum, who is the father of Imhotep. The mother is a secret known only to the Order of Isis, but clearly she is from the line of Andjedti, or the Thoth of the icon of the ibis. Two of the Thoth have been combined in Imhotep; Andjedti of the ibis, and Khons of the baboon. The third Thoth, of Horus, descended of Hor-Tehuti, became Pharaoh of the United Nile. Imhotep is the "Vizier" of the United Nile, and his Pharaoh is Djoser. There is an obvious compression between the myth and the man. There are Viziers before Imhotep, as the fusion of the two lines of Thoth into one took place. But Imhotep gained such fame that he was deified in subsequent generations, and stands as the symbolic figure in the procreation account. In the hypothetical fiction book "I Ruled The World", the unusual real-life Egyptian character Kagemni is assumed to be the son of Imhotep, and becomes the King of Kings in a world empire built on the plans developed by the god Poseidon. You need to read that book.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Pharaoh has five names. First is his Horus name. This is usually the serekh adopted as symbol of the king by Wadji, the 3rd Pharoah of the 1st Dynasty. The serekh is a depiction of gates between towers. The second name is called Nebti, and signifies rule over Upper and Lower Egypt (south and north). The third name is the Golden Horus, or divine connection name. The fourth is Nisut-Bit (north-south), given upon coronation. It is unique to him, and alone is sufficient to identify him. Finally he has the son of Re' name. This denotes his inclusion in a genealogical royal line from Hor-Tehuti, who is remembered as Re'-Horus.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Want to know the secret of THOTH?  Email to thoth@tomgilmore.com for the free link, just include how you found this page.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Cult of Osiris</b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>It wasn't until 550 AD or so that the pervert and religious fanatic Justinian closed the last temple of Isis at Philae, but Osiris became predominant long before the demise of Isis.  Life is temporary but death is permanent.  It is death that ultimately triumphs over all constructive efforts, just as hatred and violence triumphs over love and passivity. This is evidenced by the brutal crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth by the rabble of Israel. The Cult of Death, Christianity, glorified the crucifixion of the meek on Earth, and drove mankind into the depths of depravity and Dark Age of ignorance, while the Knights Templar, Freemasons, and Rosicrucians preserved the traditions of Isis in secret societies.</b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Isis</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>   <IMG SRC="3fc23ea0.gif" border=0 width="35" height="234" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="3f8b1ee0.jpg" border=0 width="433" height="238" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="3fa23eb0.gif" border=0 width="35" height="235" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                   </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>The Throne.</b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Cult Center: A temple is dedicated to her on the Island of Philae, near the first cataract. She is revered throughout Egypt.</b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Attributes: Isis is one of the earliest and most important goddess in ancient Egypt. She was regarded as the feminine counterpart to Osiris, a role she probably occupied before the dawn of dynastic Egypt. No other Egyptian deity has stood the test of time as well as Isis. Her cult was not extinguished with the other Egyptian gods, but was embraced by the Greeks and Romans, her worship has even lasted into the present day. </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>She was revered by the Egyptian people as the great mother-goddess and represents the maternal spirit in its most intimate form. She is often seen suckling a young Horus. In the Osiris legend she is seen as a dutiful wife, a grieving widow and as a protector of the dead.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>As a winged goddess she may represent the wind. In the Osiris legend there are references to Isis wailing and moaning like the wind. She is also continually travelling up and down the land in search of her lost husband. Upon finding Osiris' body, she takes the shape of one of the swiftest birds, a kite. Flapping and darting above his dead body she wails in mourning. She restores life to Osiris by flapping her wings and filling his mouth and nose with air.</b></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Isis was a great enchantress, the goddess of magic. Together with Thoth, she taught mankind the secrets of medicine. She was the embalmer and gaurdian of Osiris. She is often rendered on the foot of coffins with long wings spread to protect the deceased.</b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Representation: A woman wearing on her head the hieroglyphic symbol of her name, which represents a throne or seat. Often seen wearing horns and a solar disk on her head. Sometimes she is pictured with wings, It is noteworthy that she is one of only a few deities that we find with wings in ancient Egyptian mythology.</b></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Relations: Daughter of Nut and Geb. Sister of Osiris, Nephthys, and Seth. Wife of Osiris. Mother of Horus.</b></I></div> <div> <I><B>   <IMG SRC="3f471bb0.gif" border=0 width="113" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="3f2b0000.jpg" border=0 width="176" height="256" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      <IMG SRC="3f66bc10.gif" border=0 width="107" height="193" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></I></div> <div> <I><B>   <IMG SRC="400eec80.jpg" border=0 width="494" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></b></I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>